Milestones, Apr. 6, 1959

Died. Grant Withers, 55, once popular cinemactor who in 1930 eloped with
17-year-old Loretta Young, eventually chalked up five wrecked
marriages, hit the bottle ("They threw a net over me and hauled me to a
sanitarium"), was reclaimed by his friend John Wayne, who got him parts
in Wayne pictures (Wake of the Red Witch, Fort Apache); by his own hand
(an overdose of barbiturates); in North Hollywood.